The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who… — Ronald Lauder Copy Share Image
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
I was born in Norwich, which I still regard as the most beautiful city in the world, despite the attempts by the… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
When the Second World War started, I was only five but I still remember... Being a witness... I wanted people to remember… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
“Graças a Churchill, não foi a Alemanha que passou a dominar a Europa, mas sim os Estados Unidos e a Rússia. Graças… — Sebastian Haffner Copy Share Image
We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear… — Mike Gravel Copy Share Image
There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill;… — William Golding Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Sixty million people died in the Second World War. World War II was a gigantic crime. We condemn it all. We are… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
“The Second World War, when it came in 1939, was unquestionably the outcome of the First, and in large measure its continuation.… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
“After all, we are all immigrants to the future; none of us is a native in that land. Margaret Mead famously wrote… — Marina Gorbis Copy Share Image
“DISTURBED BY THE INDISCRIMINATE USE of synthetic chemical pesticides after the Second World War, aquatic biologist Rachel Carson reluctantly turned her focus… — Sheila Watt-Cloutier Copy Share Image
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Political calculation and local suffering do not entirely explain the participation in these pogroms. Violence against Jews served to bring the Germans… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“In Taiwan, where bubble tea was invented, people have been drinking Chinese tea styles with milk since Dutch colonization in the seventeenth… — Ruby Tandoh Copy Share Image
“The Korean Peninsula was kind of left over when the Second World War ended. Stalin and Truman each occupied a bit in… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“In recent years there has been a tendency by some Western historians and politicians to look back at the aftermath of the… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed,… — Harald zur Hausen Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
In times of crisis we must all find new ways of working - just as we did after the great fire and… — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were… — Manuel Moroun Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the second world war, nations came together to say 'never again.' They established the United Nations and agreed… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
“Grossly to oversimplify the contributions made by the three leading members of the Grand Alliance in the Second World War, if Britain… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had… — Rob Walton Copy Share Image
If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
